News and Events Categories: Built Environment
Climate-resilient schools
June 22, 2021
The effects of overheating, flooding, and poor air quality are already being felt in our buildings, including our schools. Some 49 percent of London’s schools are at high or medium risk from surface water flooding. High temperatures already affect the wellbeing and concentration levels of schoolchildren. Climate change will increase the frequency and severity of … Read more
Creating an urban heat service for London
June 9, 2021
Through the Strategic Priority Fund’s UK Climate Resilience Programme the Met Office has funding to develop a prototype urban climate service to meet urban user needs for managing heat risks in cities. This service is in early development and comprises two parts – the first is an urban “Heat Pack” that comprises a set of factsheets providing … Read more
Urban climate resilience: tackling microclimates and dwelling overheating
June 7, 2021
A joint LCCP/Buildings and Cities event The design of our cities, streets, open spaces and homes impacts on the local climate (microclimate) as well as on the health of citizens. Compact urban form is often argued to be a more sustainable approach, but can cause adverse consequences on local microclimates, with localised cascading impacts on … Read more
Job opportunity: Communications Officer, Parks for London
May 13, 2021
Parks for London, which is evolving into a Centre for Excellence to support London’s parks and green spaces, is recruiting a Communications Officer. It’s an exciting opportunity to help shape and develop new approaches to championing green space at a time when parks and green spaces are in the spotlight. Find more information and an … Read more
LCCP Update 11 May 2021
May 10, 2021
Met Office Industry Climate Week From 24-28 May the Met Office will be sharing content from climate scientists and partner organisations about what industry leaders are doing to adapt and transition to net zero, and what the latest climate science means for business and industry. On 25 May there will be a webinar on using … Read more
ICE London Infrastructure Workshops
March 17, 2021
ICE London Infrastructure workshops Tuesday 23 – Tues 30 March 2021 Ahead of the London Mayoral Election on Thursday 6 May, ICE London is holding a series of online workshops to collect the views of ICE members and stakeholders in the built environment to on what the Mayor’s infrastructure priorities should be. Our five key … Find out more
New London Climate Risk Mapping
The GLA has released a new mapping tool to analyse climate exposure and vulnerability across London. These maps were produced by Bloomberg Associates in collaboration with the GLA and with input from LCCP partners. The purpose is to help the GLA and other London-based organisations deliver equitable responses to the impacts of climate change and target … Read more
Net Zero is Not Enough
November 12, 2020
Future of London event Coinciding with London Climate Action Week (14–20 November), this webinar examined what more we could – and should – be doing to mitigate the impacts of climate change. View the video recording here. Throughout 2020, FoL’s major programme, Achieving Net Zero, has been exploring how housing, regeneration, infrastructure and economic development will have to adapt in order to deliver the … Read more
The Cityscape and the Climate Emergency: toward collaborative action
LCCP organized this event to bring together experts from across disciplines (and continents) to explore the challenges of adapting to climate change in our complex and interconnected urban environments. We heard about why net zero poses risks to healthy indoor environments, how greening has benefits for health and adaptation, how the Green Finance Institute plans … Read more
Workshop series: Creating a Nature-Based Solutions Framework
July 16, 2020
UKGBC is running a two-year Increasing Nature-based Solutions programme to enable more ambitious industry targets and increase the application of nature-based solutions (NBS) in urban areas for climate resilience and environmental net gains. This is designed to help the built environment sector achieve the ambition, that “By 2030, all buildings and infrastructure will, throughout their lifetime, be climate resilient and maximise … Read more